Linnaean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (S-LINN)

Linnaeus' main collections are today housed at the The Linnean Society of London, but material that has belonged to Linnaeus can be found in several other institutions.
The Linnaean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm comprises some 4000 herbarium specimens, several of which are types formally designated by various experts. The specimens were once distributed by Linnaeus to his disciples and eventually they became part of the collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, subsequently the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
So far, this material has only been available to visiting scientists, and as small black and white microfiche photographs.

Images of a number of specimens from the Linnaean herbarium in Stockholm are now presented on the museum web-server. Many of the specimens are types of Linnaean plant names, identified through the efforts of the Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project at The Natural History Museum, London.
It is our ambition to add to the presentation images of all the sheets in this Linnaean collection, but for the time being only a few can be presented.

List of Linnaean types in S-LINN:

The remaining material is not presented, except for:

|Avena pratensis| |Bromus giganteus| |Cytisus argenteus| |Goniolimon tataricum| |Orobanche laevis|

Species names A-C D-F G-J K-N O-R S-T U-Z

• Name of the plant. All names correspond directly to the Linnaean basionyms. No modern synonyms are given.
• Kind of type. Here it is stated if it is a lectotype, neotype etc.
• Microfiche number. The particular type element (herbarium sheet) is numbered according to the microfiche (IDC) number, (for example IDC 139.7 for Allium fistulosum).
• Reference. A reference is given in the form of type designator and place of publication, (e.g. de Wilde-Duyfjes in Taxon 22, p. 67, 1973, for Allium fistulosum).
• Type herbarium number. Each Linnaean type sheet has a number in the General herbarium type database, and this number is shown here.

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